India, Oct. 1 -- Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who has emerged as the hero after saving over 170 passengers by fighting off his first officer who attacked him on a flydubai flight on Wednesday, had only last year spoken about how people don't treat cabin crew properly.

Machchhar's co-pilot attacked him allegedly intending to crash the flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, September 30, evening. Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, Machchhar opened the locked cockpit door, which allowed passengers and crew to overpower the co-pilot.

Amid the spotlight on Captain Smit Machchhar following the flydubai incident, a year old podcast conversation has been going viral, in which he shared his views on wha...